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Orford may refer to:
Orford was a constituency of the House of Commons. Consisting of the town of Orford in Suffolk, it elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the bloc vote version of the first past the post system of election until it was disenfranchised in 1832.
Orford is a provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the township of Orford, the township of Hatley and the municipality of Hatley, the cities of Magog and North Hatley, the township of Stanstead and the city of Stanstead, and various other municipalities.
It was created for the 1973 election from parts of the Shefford, Sherbrooke and Stanstead electoral districts.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost the part of western Sherbrooke that it formerly had to the Richmond electoral district and the municipalities of Barnston-Ouest and Stanstead-Est to the Saint-François electoral district. However, it gained a number of municipalities from Brome-Missisquoi.
Orford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- John Orford, British classical bassoonist
- Lewis Orford (1865–1948), English lawyer and cricketer
- Martin Orford, keyboard player of the progressive rock band IQ
- Matt Orford, Australian rugby league footballer
- Robert Orford, English Bishop of Ely from 1302 to 1310
- Sandy Orford (1911–1986), Welsh rugby league player and wrestler
Usage examples of "orford".
Orford there was always sufficient food on the Orford plantation for the slaves.
None of the slaves ever had to steal anything to eat on the Orford plantation.
Sherman marched through Georgia a number of the slaves on the Orford plantation joined his army.
While the Yankee soldiers were in the vicinity of the Orford plantation Mr.
He sailed for Mexico in 1826, having obtained from his Colonel, Lord Orford, leave of absence for a year, it being understood that renewals of that leave of absence might be granted.
Borrow, from which it appears he has had leave of absence from his Colonel, the Earl of Orford, up to the present year.
The Life of Ellen Orford, though sufficiently burdened with error and misfortune, has in it little besides which resembles those of the unhappy men in the preceding Letters, and is still more unlike that of Grimes, in a subsequent one.
And south they went, along roads that steadily grew worse, through the dairy country of Langlois and through thick pine forests to Port Orford, where Saxon picked jeweled agates on the beach while Billy caught enormous rockcod.
Her cousin Orford, as weaselly a creature as had ever lived, had come home bloodied but smirking, and he had snickered when Wynter had disappeared.
He released him and Orford hit the floor, moaning, then tried to stagger to his feet.
Aldborough, and that right before the town of Orford, so making himself hateful to the Orford people.
The proselytizing coach gives Mark a Dexter Aluminum target arrow with a nock of Port Orford cedar.
Nick knew the whole story, in fact, for he had gone with Will on the ski trip the senior class had taken to Mount Orford in Canada.
In this interim sir Robert Walpole was created earl of Orford, and resigned all his employments.
The court required nothing of them, but that the earl of Orford should escape with impunity.